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Hah, #OnThisDay in 1899, The New York Times first used the word "automobile". (stefanbohacek.online)

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Hah, #OnThisDay in 1899, The New York Times first used the word "automobile".

"There is something uncanny about these newfangled vehicles. They are all unutterably ugly and never a one of them has been provided with a good or even an endurable name."

https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/jan-3-york-times-first-uses-word-automobile-141419769.html

#OTD #history #news #cars #automobile #NYT #NewYorkTimes

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] That's right, the names took a while to get right. The next version,

Six Passenger Hydrocarbon Motor Carriage GT

had a much better ring to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] Mystifying that "Hippomobile" didn't catch on with the marketers 😄

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Via https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/113765844072987341

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@[email protected]
1890's Marketing Team: Steampunk has been used. How do we name something as ugly as these?
Time-traveling me, from the back of the room: "Cyberpunk"